Cleaning the bathroom = broken toilet......

As often as Brian does stuff around the house, cleaning the bathroom is always one chore he's avoided. Let's face it, though, it's the one I avoid, too. It's not exactly fun. Anyway, last weekend we were heading to Cedar Rapids on Saturday, but before we went we decided to get the house cleaned up and the yard mowed. Brian did the yard while I stayed inside. He finished before me, and came in and asked if there was anything he could help with. I told him he could clean the bathroom while I finished vacuuming and scrubbing the kitchen floor. So he went to work, and about 20 minutes later he said, "Okay, I'm going to Lowe's"

*Cue confused silence from me*

"Why?"

"I broke the toilet."

To which I responded, "What the hell were you doing in there?" or something along those lines. I mean, I know I said clean the bathroom, but how do you manage to break a toilet while scrubbing it?

Well, as it turns out, he had tried to fix the toilet while he was in there. It's been running constantly for a couple months, a fact I had forgotten because I had become to used so it. He heard it while cleaning, opened up the tank and grabbed some thingamabob inside, and it immediately broke, so he had to run to Lowe's to get a part to replace it.

**As a side note, a small part of me wonders if this is that old trick men do where they screw something up or make it extremely difficult so we never ask them to do it again. I doubt it, just because I know Brian so well, but still....Things that make you go "Hmmmm" and all that**

Anyhoodle, I found this picture on www.icanhascheezburger.com that illustrates what I dealt with on Saturday. Just to refresh everyone, Brian is a mechanical engineer. Enjoy!